Marjorie Hill

Marjorie Hill entered the School of Arts and Sciences of Howard University 
in the fall of 1904.  She was present at the inaugural meeting of the 
proposed sorority on January 15, 1908, and was one of the founders of 
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.  She has been described by her associates as a 
very small, quaint and sweet-voiced person, quiet and unassuming and always 
willing to help when a job had to be done.
        Ms. Hill graduated in 1908 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.  Her major
subjects were pedagogy and political science.  In October 1908, she left 
Washington, D.C. to accept a position as a teacher at Morgan College, 
Lynchburg, Virginia.  Once during the year, she returned to visit the Howard 
campus with her classmate, Lucy Diggs Slowe.
        Marjorie Hill died in the summer of 1909, but was remembered by her 
classmates for her willingness to participate in sorority events and her 
skill with day-to-day organization.  She was the first Alpha Kappa Alpha 
member to become an "Ivy Beyond the Wall."